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A high level of technology in the military is an Achilles heal.
Ships, planes, boats need to go online before they can move these days.
What goods a missile when it has no GPS. What good are satalites when you cannot talk to them..
Originally posted by OccamAssassin
reply to post by adjensen
Why critical computers that control things like air traffic control or the power grid are on networks that are connected to the Internet boggles the mind.
The systems are (generally) not connected to the internet. Usually the hackers connect directly to the systems via their internal networks. In the old days....a dialer would be set up to systematically call a range of phone numbers until a computer was found.....then the type of system and potential entry points can be identified.
The military works the same. Critical systems only run on dedicated networks.
Can you imagine the ramifications if a hacker were able to take control of a drone?
Originally posted by CIAGypsy
Chinese hackers have control of US power grid
news.techeye.net
(visit the link for the full news article)
The company whose software and services remotely administers and monitor large sections of the US energy industry began warning customers about a sophisticated hacker attack.
Telvent Canada said that digital fingerprints left behind by attackers point to a Chinese hacking group tied to repeated cyber-espionage campaigns against key Western interests.
It looks like the hackers managed to get past the company firewall and security systems.
Read more: news.techeye.net...
Originally posted by Ironclad
Originally posted by OccamAssassin
reply to post by adjensen
Why critical computers that control things like air traffic control or the power grid are on networks that are connected to the Internet boggles the mind.
The systems are (generally) not connected to the internet. Usually the hackers connect directly to the systems via their internal networks. In the old days....a dialer would be set up to systematically call a range of phone numbers until a computer was found.....then the type of system and potential entry points can be identified.
The military works the same. Critical systems only run on dedicated networks.
Can you imagine the ramifications if a hacker were able to take control of a drone?
Could you imagine if they were able to take control of the missile defence systems or the launch systems..!?!
2nd
The Chinese Hackers are responsible for many incursions into the U.S. GRID...but only because we allow them to. It works like this...we let them hack our systems to an extent to see just how far or capable they are. We might even allow access for a time...but it is all for the purpose of gauging an adversary.
If you think for a SECOND the U.S. Military would not have the capability to BURN any Hack or Tag the Hack and insert a TOMBSTONE VIRUS on any Hacking Adversary...then you are delusional.
The INTERNET WAS CREATED BY THE U.S. MILITARY! It has ways and lanes and Back Doors that NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT!
The first two nodes of what would become the ARPANET were interconnected between Leonard Kleinrock's Network Measurement Center at the UCLA's School of Engineering and Applied Science and Douglas Engelbart's NLS system at SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, on 29 October 1969.[11] The third site on the ARPANET was the Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics center at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the fourth was the University of Utah Graphics Department. In an early sign of future growth, there were already fifteen sites connected to the young ARPANET by the end of 1971.[12][13] These early years were documented in the 1972 film Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing.
Originally posted by Monts
Cyber-terrorism?
Wouldn't a threat to cyberspace give those in power the best reason to "secure" the internet and our "cyber-rights"?
Traditional terrorism has already gotten all of our other rights in the bag...
Methinks I smells a False-Flag.
Originally posted by DarthFazer
WHAT IF?
this story is a lie created by our own government so that they would have the excuse for a internet kill switch in the near future? Say something like civil unrest was to ignite and they wanted to quell the idea from spreading hence they shut off the internet and blame cyber terrorism ? I have to remain skeptical especially anything the media says. It could even be China creating propaganda to keep us in check? I could imagine several scenarios to see this being the pretext to a false flag.
Originally posted by Monts
Cyber-terrorism?
Wouldn't a threat to cyberspace give those in power the best reason to "secure" the internet and our "cyber-rights"?
Traditional terrorism has already gotten all of our other rights in the bag...
Methinks I smells a False-Flag.
You are not alone... the dude definitely abidesedit on 29-9-2012 by DarthFazer because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by OccamAssassin
The Protocols that were first developed by NORAD which were adopted from Protocols for SAC all the way back in the 50's as a way to allow communication between Nuclear Bases in the even a First Strike took out Civilian Command and Control for the release of a Nuclear Strike...by way of First Generation Networked Tape Computers was the beginning of the system now known as the Internet. Split Infinity
Originally posted by adjensen
Here's an "unhackable firewall":
Why critical computers that control things like air traffic control or the power grid are on networks that are connected to the Internet boggles the mind. If they need to be on a WAN, make it a private one that only connects to the outside world through a sneaker-net.